As a rule of thumb never go into something where the worst thing that could happen is that you succeed. Plagiarism is not illegal. But is what this legislator wants. If he succeed, he should be penalized by his own law.
Fortunately there are laws that takes precedence. Murphy's laws in general, and Hanlon's Razor in particular should apply in this case: never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
In the worst case, US always can let that happen (or even force it) and declare their independence from foreign energy sources. Why chase the elluding nuclear fussion technology if will have almost free and almost limitless amount of oil filling all the gulf?
Thats remember me the recent news on Google investing in a company that tries to predict future, and markets and automated software are all about trying to somewhat predict future in that particular area. Predicting the orbit of an asteroid is possible, you have most if not all the relevant data, and usually you cant change anything of it. Predicting people behavioiur,specially when you are people too and could affect the final outcome (specially in markets) enters in the gray area. And if over that, you don't care about the possibility typos, mistakes, stupidity or just crazyness instead of intended actions, you are in hot water, specially if most of the others do the same based in the same input. And probably should add malice too, if the system is vulnerable just because there are those automated responses ready for making a disaster.
Such things could have an interesting effect in France if that law gets approved, specially if punishes you if someone downloads something illegal using your connection, even if the access wasnt enabled but cracked into.
I feel disturbing that people prefer to give "real bad" status to Google because they have the knowledge, but had proved to not have the will all/most of this years, and prefer going with Microsoft that if anything has proved in 30+ years of existence (probably would be very few missing years in that period without a big example) is that have the will do to evil every time they had a chance.
Look, that professor will be with our daughters a lot of time, and something weird could pass for his head this time, so instead will bring for that role that other guy that was already convicted for rape several times.
You should check the market share on older versions of those browsers. Seems that the culture,the warnings of new version, or the autoupdate makes them much harder to keep being used as outdated and insecure versions. While still a big enough percent of IE users keep using the widely known as insecure version 6.
My N900 have something to disgress on his toughts. Flash perform well on it, and even if it touchscreen, you can turn on the "mouse" for rollover and such things. Maybe the concern could be more related to capacitive vs resistive touchscreen, or the precision of it (no pen for iPhone/iPad by directive).
Like it or not, a good portion of the web is flash, not just videos or games, but actual content, navigation, and well...ads. Now there is a race between Adobe making a decent linux/mac/mobile flash player and Internet migrating to a flash free, html5/css/js full standard. And Adobe is already moving in that direction, there is a preview of 10.1 that does hardware acceleration streaming videos on macs, will release next version for Android too, and maybe Symbian or even Meego could have optimized versions. And in the internet side, well, you have countless sites using it and not hurrying on moving on, and one of the big players having little clue about what is html5.
Anyway, have to agree with him that flash is a bit heavy in cpu and battery for anything in linux/n900/mac so far, and have to respect his will to bet the future of his company on something that, if goes well, could be good for internet as a whole. But don't treat your users as hostages in a holy war.
By Ubuntu 22.04 it will become self-aware, and will only accept to be called as "Him", anything else will guarantee a thunderstorm very close to your head.
In the case it or one of its successors are launched to another solar system, i suggest that it carry scaled down versions of the ninja turtles, so if some come back to this mote in god's eye will never figure how we really are.
Make internal users to have to use a proxy to access internet sites, and block in the proxy configuration external requests from IE6 user agent. That way they could still use IE6 for internal applications that require it, and force them to use another browser to access internet.
Killing internet openness because could be abuses, despite all the good that could come from it, could be very similar to killing religion, because, well, existed (child) abusers. Probably the net gain of killing both would be possitive for mankind.
"Bunch of services" from Google where you can find content from mostly anonymous users from around the world? That should be almost all services. Probably the most damaging ones would be search and probably mail, but in general most of them accepts content from basically anonymous posters.
Google could argue to a higher court that that ruling implies closing those services to Brazil, and even put a date for it. Will be a big hit for Google finances, but also will be a demolishing one for Brazil government if they don't go back.
Is the proof that zombie/slayer/monsters movies were right all the time.
In those movies, you have the evil one walking slowly, while their potential victims are running away at warp 10, and still, they are catched/slayed/etc. When they see them coming, they think "oh, i still have 12 years till they catch me, can run at any time" and stay there all those 12 years till they are caught, while espectators do mass facepalm. We are about to see a remake of that kind of movies at internet level.
If well even in the open source you can hit developers weirdest ideas, agendas, and idiology, all is there, in the open,where everyone can see it, and probably commented around it if is weird or arbitrary. Is a system where you have all the tools to find how it works, how, and why. In closed source systems, in the other hand, you are a blind mouse in a cat's playground. If something don't work, or works in a weird way, you can only pray and hope for the best. That kind of stress don't help a lot to love computers, or at least, the ones that run that kind of systems.
Is a game that once you start to play, everyone loses, including you, and everyone you ever care about. Rigging or making look rigged climate data is a move in a very similar game in the potential final consequences, but yet some people try to play that game,
How many "watchers" that everything should be all right, in all sectors, are surfing porn right now? How many will enter into a paranoid state and delete everything in their hard drives, including critical info? And how many of them will try to show that they were working instead of surfing porn and or uncover something big, or take out a lot of somewhat normal people (probably more normal than them) becuase not following to the letter some law?
And, of course, who watches the watchers? 8 hours a day watching porn instead of working is a bad symptom.for any kind of work (unless you work is related with porn sites)
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As a rule of thumb never go into something where the worst thing that could happen is that you succeed. Plagiarism is not illegal. But is what this legislator wants. If he succeed, he should be penalized by his own law.
Fortunately there are laws that takes precedence. Murphy's laws in general, and Hanlon's Razor in particular should apply in this case: never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
If you pay them enough, they will give you all that info, about you and everyone else.
In the worst case, US always can let that happen (or even force it) and declare their independence from foreign energy sources. Why chase the elluding nuclear fussion technology if will have almost free and almost limitless amount of oil filling all the gulf?
Is coming here? Dont panic, but.. i f it will hit earth, we may have only a few billion years to escape
Number 5 got upgraded, and now is runing amok over our heads.
Thats remember me the recent news on Google investing in a company that tries to predict future, and markets and automated software are all about trying to somewhat predict future in that particular area. Predicting the orbit of an asteroid is possible, you have most if not all the relevant data, and usually you cant change anything of it. Predicting people behavioiur,specially when you are people too and could affect the final outcome (specially in markets) enters in the gray area. And if over that, you don't care about the possibility typos, mistakes, stupidity or just crazyness instead of intended actions, you are in hot water, specially if most of the others do the same based in the same input. And probably should add malice too, if the system is vulnerable just because there are those automated responses ready for making a disaster.
put the gun in jail, we are innocent.
Such things could have an interesting effect in France if that law gets approved, specially if punishes you if someone downloads something illegal using your connection, even if the access wasnt enabled but cracked into.
I feel disturbing that people prefer to give "real bad" status to Google because they have the knowledge, but had proved to not have the will all/most of this years, and prefer going with Microsoft that if anything has proved in 30+ years of existence (probably would be very few missing years in that period without a big example) is that have the will do to evil every time they had a chance.
Look, that professor will be with our daughters a lot of time, and something weird could pass for his head this time, so instead will bring for that role that other guy that was already convicted for rape several times.
... and lolcats
You should check the market share on older versions of those browsers. Seems that the culture,the warnings of new version, or the autoupdate makes them much harder to keep being used as outdated and insecure versions. While still a big enough percent of IE users keep using the widely known as insecure version 6.
My N900 have something to disgress on his toughts. Flash perform well on it, and even if it touchscreen, you can turn on the "mouse" for rollover and such things. Maybe the concern could be more related to capacitive vs resistive touchscreen, or the precision of it (no pen for iPhone/iPad by directive).
Like it or not, a good portion of the web is flash, not just videos or games, but actual content, navigation, and well...ads. Now there is a race between Adobe making a decent linux/mac/mobile flash player and Internet migrating to a flash free, html5/css/js full standard. And Adobe is already moving in that direction, there is a preview of 10.1 that does hardware acceleration streaming videos on macs, will release next version for Android too, and maybe Symbian or even Meego could have optimized versions. And in the internet side, well, you have countless sites using it and not hurrying on moving on, and one of the big players having little clue about what is html5.
Anyway, have to agree with him that flash is a bit heavy in cpu and battery for anything in linux/n900/mac so far, and have to respect his will to bet the future of his company on something that, if goes well, could be good for internet as a whole. But don't treat your users as hostages in a holy war.
By Ubuntu 22.04 it will become self-aware, and will only accept to be called as "Him", anything else will guarantee a thunderstorm very close to your head.
In the case it or one of its successors are launched to another solar system, i suggest that it carry scaled down versions of the ninja turtles, so if some come back to this mote in god's eye will never figure how we really are.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull pilot
Make internal users to have to use a proxy to access internet sites, and block in the proxy configuration external requests from IE6 user agent. That way they could still use IE6 for internal applications that require it, and force them to use another browser to access internet.
Killing internet openness because could be abuses, despite all the good that could come from it, could be very similar to killing religion, because, well, existed (child) abusers. Probably the net gain of killing both would be possitive for mankind.
If this get wide actively exploited we will see how will be built Babel Tower 2.0, using only social engineering.
In fact, don't think on God...think in terrorists, or in the children. Always will be a worse application of this than what you tought.
"Bunch of services" from Google where you can find content from mostly anonymous users from around the world? That should be almost all services. Probably the most damaging ones would be search and probably mail, but in general most of them accepts content from basically anonymous posters.
Google could argue to a higher court that that ruling implies closing those services to Brazil, and even put a date for it. Will be a big hit for Google finances, but also will be a demolishing one for Brazil government if they don't go back.
Attached file: [1000_Mass-_Citizens_names.txt]
Bah, wasn't that easy. So lets just close Facebook, which fine should be enough to pay USA debt.
Is the proof that zombie/slayer/monsters movies were right all the time.
In those movies, you have the evil one walking slowly, while their potential victims are running away at warp 10, and still, they are catched/slayed/etc. When they see them coming, they think "oh, i still have 12 years till they catch me, can run at any time" and stay there all those 12 years till they are caught, while espectators do mass facepalm. We are about to see a remake of that kind of movies at internet level.
If well even in the open source you can hit developers weirdest ideas, agendas, and idiology, all is there, in the open,where everyone can see it, and probably commented around it if is weird or arbitrary. Is a system where you have all the tools to find how it works, how, and why. In closed source systems, in the other hand, you are a blind mouse in a cat's playground. If something don't work, or works in a weird way, you can only pray and hope for the best. That kind of stress don't help a lot to love computers, or at least, the ones that run that kind of systems.
Is a game that once you start to play, everyone loses, including you, and everyone you ever care about. Rigging or making look rigged climate data is a move in a very similar game in the potential final consequences, but yet some people try to play that game,
How many "watchers" that everything should be all right, in all sectors, are surfing porn right now? How many will enter into a paranoid state and delete everything in their hard drives, including critical info? And how many of them will try to show that they were working instead of surfing porn and or uncover something big, or take out a lot of somewhat normal people (probably more normal than them) becuase not following to the letter some law?
And, of course, who watches the watchers? 8 hours a day watching porn instead of working is a bad symptom.for any kind of work (unless you work is related with porn sites)
All that time the computer weren't running windows. I tought that at the end of the day the economic balance should have been positive.